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by asynchronous 664 days ago
Not to be that guy, but the DOE is arguably one of the most important federal agencies in the US, and they treat the problem with the correct amount of focus, research and dedication. It’s just a very hard problem. The grid is no less secure or less resilient than it was 50 years ago, the main problem is that people are more dependent on it. Almost no one buys a personal generator before an outage happens anymore, despite it being one of the cheapest ways to get resiliency.